Hyphenation of “singletons”
The standard US-English hyphenation shown for singletons is sin-gle-tons, with 2 possible break points in this result.
US English hyphenation
sin-gle-tons
3 segments2 break points
British English pattern result
singletons
The GB pattern set returns a different line-break pattern. Pattern differences are not automatically treated as a linguistic US/UK difference.
What does “singletons” mean?
singletons: a single person or thing of the kind under consideration.
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noun
a single person or thing of the kind under consideration.
Example: “splitting the clumps of plants into singletons”
How “singletons” is split
sin·gle·tons
For US English, the hyphenation result is sin-gle-tons. This gives 2 possible line-break points in the returned pattern. The British-English pattern set returns singletons.
Questions about “singletons”
How do you hyphenate “singletons”?
In the US-English result used here, singletons is hyphenated as sin-gle-tons.
Where can “singletons” break at the end of a line?
The returned US pattern contains 2 possible break points.
What does “singletons” mean?
a single person or thing of the kind under consideration.
Can you use “singletons” in a sentence?
“splitting the clumps of plants into singletons”